The ‘sensory turn’ in anthropology has generated a significant literature on sensory perception and experience. Whilst much of this literature is critical of the compartmentalization of particular ‘senses’, there has been limited exploration of how anthropologists might examine sensory perception beyond ‘the senses’. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with people who have impaired vision walking the South Downs landscape in England, this article develops such an approach. It suggests that the experiences of seeing in blindness challenge the conceptualization of ‘vision’ (and ‘non‐vision’). In place of ‘vision’ (as a sense), the article explores ‘activities of seeing’ – an approach that contextualizes the visual to examine the biographically constituted and idiosyncratic nature of perception within an environment. Through an ethnography of seeing with anatomical eyes and ‘seeing in the mind's eye’, it articulates an approach that avoids associating perception with anatomy, or compartmentalizing experience into ‘senses’.

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超越感官：知觉，环境和视力障碍

人类学中的“感官转向”已经产生了有关感官知觉和经验的大量文献。尽管许多文献都批评特定的“感觉”的分隔，但是对于人类学家如何检查“感觉”之外的感官知觉的探索还很有限。基于人种学的田野调查，与视力受损的人在英格兰的南唐斯（South Downs）风景中行走，本文提出了这种方法。它表明，盲目地观看的经验对“视觉”（和“非视觉”）的概念化提出了挑战。本文代替“视觉”（从某种意义上来说），探索了“观看活动”-一种将视觉背景化的方法，以检查环境中感知的生物学构成和特质。